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Re: [PATCH] Implement tmpfile with O_TMPFILE (bug 21530)
On 26/06/2017 13:37, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> On 06/26/2017 11:34 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> On 06/26/2017 04:53 PM, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:
>>> I would prefer to compartmentalize Linuxism to linux sysdep folder, something
>>> like:
>>
>> Isn't O_TMPFILE part of the GNU API now?
>
> Part of the GNU/Linux API? Yes.
>
> We export it under __USE_GNU in fcntl-linux.h.
>
> Is that the same as the Generic GNU API?
>
> We do talk about O_TMPFILE in GNU/Hurd open/openat
> implementations, and O_TMPFILE seems like a generically
> useful feature everyone would agree you want in an OS.
>
It can be adopted by POSIX in the future, but *currently* it only
exported on Linux-only headers and it would require kernel support
to have it implemented correctly (so trying to emulate it with a
generic code is not an option). So imho it is still Linux specific.